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...Shanghai Noon, is a western, the U.S. equivalent of the Qing dynasty martial-arts films that made Chan famous back home. Wilson's Roy O'Bannion is the self-legendizing cowboy, and Chan's Chon Wang (sounds like John Wayne) is essentially Roy's stern Indian sidekick. That's apt, since, when he's not smiling, Jackie's face has the weathered severity of a Cherokee scout...
...emotional decisions about when to pass, for example, and tend to think the lane next to them is going faster even when it isn't, according to research by Donald Redelmeier of the University of Toronto and Robert Tibshirani of Stanford University. And once in a jam, they're apt see themselves only as victims rather than part of the problem. There is, however, one big city where congestion charging has become an accepted part of life: Singapore. Granted, that city also accepts caning. But it's the one comparable model, and the results have been tremendous. A charging scheme...
With any luck, perhaps the next doyen of the pro-science, anti-creationist movement will be another Harvard professor. Nothing, indeed, could be a more apt or vital part of University President Lawrence H. Summers’ professed commitment to the biological sciences, and nothing could better honor professor Gould’s legacy...
This is an apt moment for such a venture, since at present the design world seems poised at an intersection between a fondly reimagined past and a dazzlingly envisioned future--between cherishing what has gone before and vaulting toward something totally unprecedented. The creative friction between these two apparently warring tendencies has produced both elegant and unexpected reinventions of revered ideas as well as a host of bold new visions spurred on by new technologies...
...artisan, trying to understand the craft of each house. Then he puts on his bean-counter hat and assesses the ratio of clothing sales to accessories sales and factors in other businesslike components to incorporate into his designs. A designer label like Jil Sander, from which clients are more apt to buy head to toe, requires a different take from that of a shoe and accessory brand like Prada...